Honey-box section.



G. W. MAXWELL & J. J. BREWER.

HONEY BOX SECTION.

AHLIOATION TILED JAN. 27, 1909;

Patentgd July 27,1909.

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HONEY-BOX. SECTION.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 27, 1909.

Application filed January 27, 1909. Serial No. 474,636.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, GEORGE TV. MAX- WELL and JEREMIAH J. BREWER,citizens of the United States, residing at St. Paul, in the county ofRamsey and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Honey-Box Sections and we do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same.

Our invention relates to honey boxes or so called sections, and has forits object to provide an extremely simple, cheap and highly efficientmetallic reinforcing clip therefor.

To the above ends, the invention consists of the novel devices andcombinations of devices hereinafter described and defined in the claims.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein likecharacters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings: Figure 1 isa perspective view showing thecompleted honey box; Fig. 2 is a plan View showing the so called boxsection laid out flat; Fig. 3 is a horizontal section taken on the line:0 at of Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is a horizontal section taken on the line 3;":t" of Fi 2 Fig. 5 is a vertical section taken on the line m a of Fig.2; and Fig. 6 is a plan view showing one of the corner reinforcing clipslaid out flat.

The numeral 4 indicates the wooden body portion of the honey box orsection, which in itself, is of standard construction. These boxsections, as is well known, are made from thin Wooden strips havingkerfs at three different places, adapting the boxto be folded intorectangular form, and usually joined at the fourth corner by dovetailedjoints, which latter however, are not absolutely necessary, when theimproved reinforcing clips are used. In fact, the present box may bemade of four separate pieces of suitable material.

The customary wooden honey box or section is extremely weak at itscorners, because the kerfs must of necessity, be nearly cut through thewood; and if the sections are at all dry when bent, they are sure tobebroken apart at the kerfs, thus destroying the box section under theordinary use. Furthermore, when these box sections are put together,they are seldom square, and when they are filled with honey and areforced into a packing or shipping case and are caused to square up bypressure of other boxes, they are frequently strained and broken loosefrom the honey comb, and sometimes the entire cake of honey is crackedthus producing a leakage of honey which will very greatly damage andconsequently decrease the value of the entire case of honey. It is alsoa well known fact, that bees stick the boxes together when within thehive by means of a very hard gummy material known as propolis. Thispropolis must be scraped off from the boxes or sections before shipping,and in doing this, with the old form of wooden box, many are broken attheir corners so that they are loosened from the honey comb, thusdamaging the honey. All of these objectional features are eliminated anda very strong box or section is provided by the use of our improvedmetallic corner clips. These improved corner clips are preferablyconstructed from small thin sheet metal sections, such as tin, whichprimarily has the form shown in Fig. 6, by reference to which it willbenoted, that the flat rectangular body portions 1., at their oppositeedges, are obliquely slit or cut at 2 to form sharp clenching barbs 3.These corner clips are preferably applied to the wooden body section 4at the proper places to reinforceithe corners of the box, while the saidwooden section is laid out flat as shown in Fig. 2, one edge of one ofthe said clips being applied at one edge only to one end of the saidwooden sections 4. When the clips are to be applied, their barbs 3 arebent in the same direction at a right angle to the face of the clip, andthese barbs are forced through the wooden section and their ends areclenched or bent over at that side of the box section which is to formthe interior of the box. This gives a nearly completed box in flat formwhich adapts the sections to be closely packed for shipment. To completethe box at the place where it is to be used, it is only necessary tobend the section into rectangular form, and to connect the notched endsof the section by means of the barbs at the projecting edge of the endclip, the said barbs of course, being forced through the other end ofthe wooden section and clenched in the manner above indicated.

A box constructed as above described, will be extremely strong at itscorners, and in fact, Will be stronger at its corners than at any otherplace. Furthermore, the barbs keep the edges of the metal clips closelydrawn against the Wooden portion of the box or section, so that theclips of one box Will not catch upon the clips of another box, and amultiplicity of boxes may be closely packed together. In folding thesection at its kerfs, the beveled portions of the kerf are very tightlydrawn together, and When these kerfs are out With l5 degree bevels, thisdrawing action Will square up the completed box. Obviously, these clipsmay be applied to the box sections at extremely low cost, and the boxsections may be folded into box form as easily as an ordinary Woodensection. The saving of the Wooden box sections by the use '01 thesecorner clips Will many times more than pay i'or the cost of the clips,aside from the large saving of honey above noted, Which results from theuse thereof.

What We claim is: a

1. A honey box having applied to the exterior of its four corners, thinmetal reinforcing clips having laterally bent barbs cut therefrom andpressed through the sides of said box and clenched at the insidethereof,- those portions; of said barbs Which are forced through thesides of said box extending edge Wise longitudinally of said sides,substantially as described.

2. A honey box section in flat form having at the abutting ends or kerfsof its side forming portions, and at one end of said section, metalreinforcing clips applied While said section is laid out flat, the saidbarbs being formed by slits cut obliquely in the extreme edge portionsoi said metal clips, substantially as desc ibed.

3. A honey boxsection in flat 'l'orni, having at its kerls or abuttingends of its side forming portions, and at one end of the said section,metal reinforcing clips applied While the said section laid out fiat,the end men1- ber 01' said clips projecting at one edge from that end ofthe section to which it is-applied.

In'testimony whereof We {tfilX our signatures in presence oi twoWitnesses. r

GEORGE W. iVlAXNELL; JEREMIAH J. BREWER. Witnesses:

HARRY E. Gnome, J. E. MoCAFrRnY.

